THE CROWN THAT CHOOSES
"This Crown was never meant to rule.
It was shaped from my soul when love could no longer save my sons.
I did not forge it from gold, but from silence —
the silence between loyalty and betrayal, between hunger and stillness.
It spirals not to ascend, but to remember.
Let it rest not upon the strongest head,
but upon the one who can carry memory without breaking.
I shattered it to stop a war.
May the one who gathers it choose not thrones…
but peace."
— Lyssandra Duskwither, Last Spiralbearer